Chapter 9.

Goku and Vegeta landed in front of Goku's little house. "Welcome to my humble home Vegeta." Goku smiled broadly. Vegeta looked at the house with a disgusted sneer.

"What a dump." He replied. Goku's smile fell. "My gravity room is bigger then this." Vegeta snickered enjoying the glare he received from his rival.

"Well at least I'm not living out someone else's pocket." Goku countered. Vegeta growled and was raising his fist to punch him in the face.

"No fighting near the house!" Chichi's voice suddenly screeched from the house. Vegeta growled again, but lowered his fist.

"Aw come on Chi." Goku said grinning like an idiot. "We were just playing." He walked to his wife and gave her a big kiss. "We're sorry." Chichi pushed away her husband with a furious glare in her eyes.

"Playing?" She shrieked. Making both Vegeta and Goku wince. "Every time you "play" with someone the house gets totaled!" With every word she screamed her voice got louder. "How much do you think those repairs cost? We need to save our money for Gohan's studies!"

Vegeta placed his hands over his ears to try and block out the painful sounds.

'God damn! And I thought Bulma was loud.'

"Could you possibly be any louder?" He yelled. "I don't think they heard you on the other side of the universe!" He was about to yell at her some more when he saw a blue haired figure emerge from the house. He looked away. The hurt that Bulma had caused with her reaction to their bond boiling up again.

Bulma saw his reaction to her and her eyes saddened. She had regretted her outburst from the moment he left. He didn't deserve that after all he did for her. And after a long talk with Akana and Chichi, she realized that she should feel privileged. Vegeta was not the kind of man that settled down easily. He probably thought she was ashamed to be stuck with him after the way she acted. She sighed. She would prove to him that she was anything but ashamed and show him how deeply she cared for him. 'For now though there are other things to take care of.' She thought as she walked towards him and Goku.

"Did everything go according to plan?" Goku nodded.

"Yes, we dumped the asshole back at his apartment." He held out a capsule. "This is the recording." Bulma reached out to accept it with a trembling hand, but hesitated. She gulped and pulled her hand back.

"Just give it to Vegeta. I don't want it." She tried to sound as casual as possible, but they could all hear the slight tremble in her voice.

"Uhm, I have a confession to make." Goku whispered after handing the capsule to Vegeta. Bulma looked at him curiously expecting him to elaborate. When he didn't she sighed in annoyance.

"Well? What is it?" Goku cleared his throat.

"I told Krillin." He whispered it so softly that both Bulma and Chichi couldn't hear, but Vegeta had.

"You did what?" He yelled furiously. "You fucking idiot! What part of "don't tell anyone" don't you understand?!" Bulma and Chichi both looked at the two, wondering what was going on.

"Vegeta, what the hell are you talking about?" Bulma growled, getting angry at being left in the dark. Vegeta crossed his arms and glared at his rival.

"The idiot told cue ball." Bulma sighed.

"Oh. Well I guess he would have found out sooner or later." Vegeta blinked.

"That's it? That's all you have to say?" He asked astounded. He figured she would at least yell at Kakarott. She shrugged.

"What do you want me to say? It's not like we can do anything to change it. Besides..." Bulma continued quickly as she saw Vegeta was about to say something. "I'm too tired to be angry. Right now I just want to go home." She looked at Vegeta with pleading eyes. Vegeta sighed.

"Fine." He growled before grabbing her by her arm. He hoisted her up over his shoulder and blasted off into the sky. Goku and Chichi blinked.

"Are you sure that those two together is a good thing?" Chichi asked as the dust cleared. Goku sighed.

"Well things aren't exactly going as Trunks had predicted. He never said anything about Yamcha or the bond. I wish he had. It could have prevented allot of damage." Goku's eyes got large as he realized that he'd just blown Trunks secret. He prayed to Kami that Chichi hadn't heard, but by the look in her eyes he knew she had. She put her hands on her hips and glared at him furiously. He gulped knowing he was in serious trouble.

"Vegeta!" Bulma screamed while pounding her fists against his back. "Could you at least carry me the normal way? I'm going to be sick."

"And I care because..." Vegeta replied calmly. "Oh that's right I don't care." Bulma gritted her teeth. He was doing this on purpose for revenge about the way she treated him earlier. She couldn't really fault him for that. So she sighed deeply and remained silent.

When they arrived at Capsule Corp. Vegeta dumped her on the bed in their bedroom, before turning his back to leave. "I'm going to train." He said gruffly.

"Vegeta wait." Bulma replied quickly. Vegeta halted by the door but didn't turn to look at her. A sign that he was truly angry with her. "We need to talk about this bond..."

"What for?" Vegeta interrupted. "You made your feelings about it quite clear earlier." Bulma walked to him and put a hand on the door he was still holding open.

"I'm sorry for what I said earlier. I was just shocked and afraid. But that does not mean I do not want this bond. It's just so sudden and final. In earth marriages there is always a loophole." Vegeta sighed.

"Bonding wasn't exactly on my too do list either." He walked away from her to the window. "I admit I was attracted to you, but I wasn't planning on acting on it. I wanted to train and become a Super Saiyan. But when I saw you there lying on that bed, just barely holding on to life, I knew I couldn't let you die.

"Why not?" She asked quietly. "You wouldn't have hesitated to do so on Namek. Why would you tie your life down with me, when you are always screaming about how much you hate humans?"

"I had a debt to pay off." Vegeta shrugged.

"A debt?" Bulma hissed furiously. Her hands balled into fists and her eyes darkened. Vegeta could feel her KI rise. A side affect of the bond he hadn't told her about yet. Soon he would teach her how to use her KI. She would probably like to use it while she was extracting her revenge. "Is that all I am to you? A debt?"

"You gave me a place to stay and all the training devices I want. In return my honor dictated that I'd protect you." Bulma snorted.

"So you decided to lower you standards and tie yourself to an earthling. How fucking noble of you." Vegeta growled, grabbed her throat and forced her against the wall.

"Listen to me you ungrateful bitch!" He screamed. "You think I wanted to do this? You should be happy I sacrificed the freedom I worked so long to obtain! I hate this planet and now I'm stuck on it for the rest of my life." Bulma was gasping for breath and he could see the fear in her eyes. He slowly let her go not enjoying her fear as much as he thought he would. "My entire destiny has been taken away from me." He said more quietly visibly trying to calm himself down. "First my destiny to rule over my people was taken from me along with my freedom, then my destiny to become the first to obtain the status of legendary Super Saiyan in over a thousand years and then finally my destiny to avenge my people. So no I was not looking for a life mate. I'm not even supposed to be alive. I got wished back on accident." Bulma frowned she was confused. It just didn't make sense.

"Then why? Why give up the freedom you had longed for so long? There has to be more to then just your honor."

"Just my honor?" Vegeta's anger flared again. "Honor is all I have left. Honor and pride. It's what rules a Saiyan. No I did not save you just because of my honor." He ran a hand through his hair, before looking her straight in the eyes. "It was desire."

"Desire?" Bulma repeated dumbfounded. "I don't understand."

Vegeta sighed.

"Desire to have what you earthlings take for granted. All my life I was never allowed anything for myself, not even my life was my own."

"And here I was assuming, you only desired to be better then Goku." Bulma snorted. Vegeta gave a small smirk.

"And that has always been your problem concerning me Bulma, you assume too much. During the course of my life, I've desired many things. There was a desire to lead my people and make my father proud. I desired to be strong; I desired revenge on Frieza… And when I saw you on Namek, a new desire entered my life." He closed the distance between them and looked her in the eyes. "It was the desire to mate." He whispered softly. He raised his hand to her face and slowly rubbed his thumb across her cheek.

Bulma was transfixed by the look in his eyes. She just couldn't pull herself away. She still had a million questions running inside her head, but simply couldn't find her voice to ask them. Her heart sped up as he bent down his lips moving closer to hers. 'Yesss.' She thought. 'Its going to happen, he's finally going to kiss me.' She closed her eyes waiting to feel his lips on hers. When nothing happened, she opened her eyes again thoroughly confused. He was just staring at her with a pained expression on his face. 'What's going on?' Bulma thought. 'Weren't we supposed to bond?'

"We can't do this." Vegeta said more to himself then to her. "You're not ready yet." He dropped his hand and turned away from her. "I'm going to train." He started moving away from her when he was stopped by her hand on his arm.

"Vegeta wait." She stood behind him slowly encircling his waist with her arms. "Who are you to decide when I'm ready or not." She whispered softly while gently kissing his shoulder. His breath hitched.

"Bulma…" he started hoarsely. She walked around him placing her hands on his chest, letting her fingers trail over his well defined muscles. She smiled feeling his muscles twitch under her fingers. "We can't…" Vegeta tried again.

"But Vegeta, I thought you said we had a bond to complete." She said batting her eyelashes innocently. She graced his nipple and Vegeta flinched sucking in a huge breath.

"Shit!" he hissed through clenched teeth. He pushed her hands away from him. "Do you have any idea what you're doing to me?" he growled. Bulma looked at him.

"Please." She pleaded with him her lips just a breath away from his. "Show me how it's supposed to be, Vegeta." Vegeta hesitated a second longer before crushing her lips to his, no longer able to resist her request.